US Patent Issued to Google on July 22 for "Methods, systems, and media for adaptive presentation of a video content item based on an area of interest" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,679, issued on July 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and media for adaptive presentation of a video content item based on an area of interest" was invented by Scott Davies (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Justin Lewis (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adaptive presentation of media content includes receiving a first version of a video content item, causing the first version of the video content item to be presented within a video viewport having first dimensions, receiving user input indicating a user request to change first dimensions of the video viewport to...